Hear the Word of Jehovah, sons of Israel. For Jehovah has a quarrel with the people of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.

For they shall eat and not have enough. They shall fornicate and not increase, because they have stopped taking heed to Jehovah.

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because its shade is good. So your daughters shall be harlots, and your brides shall commit adultery.

The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Hear this, O priests, and listen, house of Israel. And give ear, house of the king. For judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah and a net spread on Tabor.

Ephraim is crushed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

Woe to them! For they have fled from Me. Ruin to them! Because they have sinned against Me. Though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.

Put a trumpet to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have broken My covenant and have sinned against My Law.

Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him to sin.

For lo, they have left because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess the desirable things of their silver; thorns shall be in their tents.

The days of her judgment have come; the days of vengeance have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and the great hatred.

My God shall cast them away because they did not listen to Him. And they shall be wanderers among the nations.

For now they shall say, We have no king because we did not fear Jehovah; what then should a king do to us?

Because of the calves of Beth-aven, the people of Samaria shall dread. For its people shall mourn over it, and its priest rejoiced on it for its glory, because it has departed from it.

You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies, because you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

So He does to you, Bethel, because of your great evil. In a morning the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.

He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

And the sword shall remain on his cities, and shall destroy his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.